{"id":14595,"date":"2015-11-20T08:53:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T13:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14595"},"modified":"2015-11-20T08:53:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T13:53:27","slug":"keeping-warm-with-minimal-heating-small-scale-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14595","title":{"rendered":"Keeping warm with minimal heating: small-scale solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/livinglowinthelou.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/11\/keeping-warm-with-minimal-heating-small.html\" target=\"_blank\">Keeping warm with minimal heating: small-scale solutions<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header\">This is the third post of a four-post series on how to keep reasonably comfortable in a minimally-heated residence. It\u2019s based on my and my husband Mike\u2019s personal experience with a residence heated to 60-63F (16-17C) when we are awake, 50F (10C) when we are sleeping, in a place where winter lows can get as cold as 0F (-18C) and where the heating season lasts for close to 6 months. Some of you have colder winters, some warmer, thus some of what I say may not apply to your situation. But I think most of you who aren\u2019t already successfully living in a minimally-heated residence will find something useful in at least one of these posts.<\/p>\n<p>The first two posts considered ways to keep our body\u2019s internal heat in and near our body for as long as possible. In this post we\u2019ll widen our gaze out to our residence. I\u2019ll discuss relatively low-cost, small-scale solutions (some very cheap, others less so).<\/p>\n<p>Now that we are looking more at your residence, a divide opens up between what a renter can do and what an owner can do. While renters will find some of these solutions cheap and easy enough and with a short enough payback time that it makes sense to implement them, others may be out of reach. However, what you can do may be more than you think depending on the details of your relationship with your landlord. If you do not expect to be where you are for long, only the cheapest, fastest-payback options make sense. I\u2019ll note those as we go along.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping warm with minimal heating: small-scale solutions This is the third post of a four-post series on how to keep reasonably comfortable in a minimally-heated residence. It\u2019s based on my and my husband Mike\u2019s personal experience with a residence heated to 60-63F (16-17C) when we are awake, 50F (10C) when we are sleeping, in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1144,3526,10683,2579,1145,885],"class_list":["post-14595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-heat","tag-heating","tag-low-technology","tag-small-scale","tag-warmth","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14596,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14595\/revisions\/14596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}